and that includes big three greengrocers, china, india and the united states. one of the most dramatic water stories which is unfolding in the world is in saudi arabia. after the arab oil export embargo in the 1970s, the souders realized they would be vulnerable because they were importing of their grain. so they began trying to figure out what to do. and using their oil drilling technology, they found a fossil aquifer about a half a mile down, a fossil aquifer is a fossil that is not naturally recharge. so they started pumping in and they had a support price about four times the world market level, which in doing can have a lot in oil money. and for more than 20 years they have been self-sufficient and reproduction. but last year they announced that aquifer was largely depleted and they would be reducing their grain harvest by 18 each year that intel by 2016 they would be out of the grain production business entirely, and dependent on imports to be what would then be a population size of 30 million people. now what's interesting about this is not so much the e